The scoreboard has now been updated for the last time, and final grades submitted (with 87 minutes to spare — go Stephen!) A special call out to in the pale moonlight for a perfect +150XP on the final exam! Sheer brilliance!! Great semester, all! I thoroughly enjoyed the material and you all. Keep processing!

Vote for the best completion to each of the three homework #5 prompts (“best” can be “funniest” or whatever else you want it to be): “Hey, are you ready to…” Hey, are you ready to this someone serious with this serious mental, physical and neurological? Hey, are you ready to take your own hands with…

From today’s class, the code for HF (🤗) text summarization: demo_summary.py interact_summary.py has been pushed to the class github repo.

The last quiz of the semester has been posted, and is due Sunday at midnight. It’s timed at one hour, and is open-book, open-notes, open-Python, closed-Internet, and of course closed-other-humans.

I have posted all the code for the LilChatBot to the class repo, in a new directory called lilChatBot. Enjoy, and send any clarifying questions you like!

Tomorrow (Tuesday Dec 2nd) I will have office hours on Zoom instead of in person, and I will hold it at this revised time: 1-3pm. If you’d like to “attend” office hours, just send me an email during that time period and I’ll reply with a link to the Zoom chat.

Quiz #5 has been posted, and is due the Tuesday after break. Note that this quiz is open-Python. I think you’ll need it!

Homework #5 has been posted, and is due on the last day of class! Good luck, and happy generating!

I have pushed the code that used 🤗’s gpt2 model to perform text generation, with various decoding options. (Btw, all over the docs and internet, you will see people referring to “the Hugging Face library and hub” simply by the character “🤗” with no other adornment. I find this cute, but also somewhat annoying, since…

If you would like to participate in Laur’s and Garrett’s experiment for +15XP, send me an email with subject line “NLP extra credit signup” before Friday the 21st at midnight. In the body of the email, you should indicate which of the following sessions (all in Farmer 022) you’d like to sign up for: Mon…